Long-term development of inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll α in the open Northern Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 86-92

  Fleming Lehtinen, Vivi ^a   Laamanen, Maria ^b   Kuosa, Harri ^c,d   Haahti, Hannu ^a   Olsonen, Riitta ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b Ministry of the Environment Finland   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; INORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER;

ALGAL BLOOM; CHLOROPHYLL; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE POLLUTION; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHATE (INORGANIC); PHYTOPLANKTON; SILICATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SEASON;

CHLOROPHYLL; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOSPHORUS; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GULF OF BOTHNIA; GULF OF FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ALGAE;

EID: 43249109060     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[86:LDOINA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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38. Acknowledgments: This study relies on data collected by FIMR, SYKE, and various institutes supplying data to the ICES database. The scientific work is based on the contribution of FIMR to the HELCOM Eutro project and financed partly by the Finnish Ministry of Environment. We would like to thank Seppo Kaitala, Heikki Pitkänen, Sanna Suikkanen, and Jonathan Fleming for their comments.
39. First submitted 21 December 2006. Accepted for publication 2 July 2007.